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"80% of Americans are already covered by the Tesla Supercharger Network with that percentage set to increase over the next several years. We could soon be finding ourselves in a market with the ever-increasing option to drive without the need for gas as fuel. This is exciting on a lot of levels, both for the personal pocketbook, and on the grander scale of our overburdened environment and dependence on fossil fuels.'' from :

''This is another great technology that could provide power to the entire planet for free! Good reasons as to why we cannot implement this technology are non existent. At the end of the day, it seems that big oil corporations will do whatever they can to prevent change from happening, but the power of the people is greater. All we have to do is come together, create, and cooperate.'' from :

Thanx a lot for this thought provoking forum-post and the excellent links Kev. A great Lee Camp video too [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXTs8149qAM ]. It really has come to something serious when the most important news is brought to The 99% people by lone radical comedians and the conservative MSM propaganda is purveyed by corporate PR whores, masquerading as 'journalists'. Ho humm, thanx again and solidarity.

Do you know what happened to Public Transport in LA & other US cities, when local bus and streetcar companies were bought up by car makers OR who financed and then buried a lot of the wind/wave/tide tech ?! I like the tech but I do N0T trust IBM !! Clean tech has to be kept out of copyright and patents and be given away and shared imo but 'The Corporate Prophets of Profit' won't allow it !!! Also, fyi ...

Aye, makes sense. That's the first thing i thought when i saw IBM (oh no, sketchy upgrades). way too long real progress has been undermined by elitist profiteers. i seriously think public ownership of things that effect everyone is more of the real issue than just the money in politics thing.

The Public Ownership of strategic industries makes complete sense but greedy, monopolistic, corporate price-gougers who own our allegedly 'democratic' governments stand in the way. In compliment on this St. Pat's Day, I append fyi :

Know an individual by "their" actions not their words. Well now we know more about you - that you don't care about combating climate change and it's increasing storms ( like Sandy ) - nope - you have shown that you are for fossil fuel destruction. Shutting down Tesla sales in your state you show yourself to be an enemy of the environment and absolutely that you are no friend of the people.

That's not bad my current car weighs 3,476 pounds - the Tesla shouldn't be that hard on tires - depending on how one drives it - no smoking the tires on every take-off. The weight with an all wheel drive transmission and an aggressive tread tire would make for a good snow vehicle.